Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:20:10 -0500 | From | jschopp <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 21/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet DMA coalescing |
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Linas Vepstas wrote: > The current driver code performs 512 DMA mappns of a bunch of > 32-byte structures. This is silly, as they are all in contiguous > memory. Ths patch changes the code to DMA map the entie area > with just one call. > > Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> > Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
The others look good, but this one complicates the code and doesn't have any benefit. 20 for 21 isn't bad. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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